The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-05
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The Mayor of Key West is soliciting sub
scriptions for the purpose of having George
T.. Warning, Jr., the celebrated civil engineer
of Newport, r. J.. to come to Key West
during the present winter and make re
port as TO the best manner and system of
sanitary drainage.
Edward Frazier was arrested at Palatka
Wednesday charged with a most revoitiny
crime that of rape. This negro man made
an assault on a colored child about or 10
years old named Rhoda Alexander, and 80
maltreated her that physicians pronounce
her injuries very serious.
At Milton Tuesday D. p Hodgkin's house
| caught fire, and III an hour or two was re
duced TO bed of ashes BY the assistance
of friends and neighbors his household goods
and some oS the window sash were saved.
The fire broke out between the roof and the
ceiling oVerhead, and therefore must have
been accidental
A runaway marriage was celebrated at
Milton Tuesday about noon, when runa-
way couple seated on the back of a small
mule came riding up TO the court house IN
search of an officer clothed with the author
ity to splice people. Judge Marquis issued
a license and tied the knot after which they
went on their way rejoicing. The names of
the contracting parties were William w
Smith and Miss NJ, NJ. Lopez, and they came
all the way from Washington county, Fla
They left here for East Florida.
Fannie Cook, the wife of Willis Cook
| tcoloredl, of Palatka, increased his already
large family by four girls Wednesday. This
| pair have twice been blessed with twins, all
of whom are living and now feel as if the
| pinnacle of happiness were reached on the
arrival Of this quartette, but unfortunately
the little ones did not live. DR.. Ames says
| that twins occur once in seventy-fve or
! eighty cases, tr'plets not oftener than once
in 5000 cases, and bankruptcies are extreme
| ~ rare.
| At Palatka the young man, Clarence Hill,
reported as having committed suicide in the
river, he having left a note to that effect,
! has been found. not dead, but dead drunk
After leaving the farewell note to his EN-
ployer, he got so drunk that he forgot to
! drown himself, and was found in that con-
dition in a barroom on the outskirts of the
city. People who searched the river for his
hat found nothing but cold atmosphere
Hill has concluded to battle with this world
little longer, and keep out of the st.
Johns river.
The Governor has made the following APP
| pointments: j. B. dickson, Supervisor of
Registration for jackson county; H. 7.
Alling, Constable for Duval county; Harris
Berlack and Julius Slaper, Auctioneers for
Duval county; Robert Kydd and w. o.
Jeffreys, Commissioners of Pilotage for
Fernandina. The following County Com
missioners have been appointed: G D.
! Bryon for Volusia county, Dennis o. Neal
for Dade county, Milton Stokes for Liberty
county G. Azolu, c. w. Hendry and r. j.
Bent for Monroe county.
| A satchel was found in a barrel at Jack
sonville Thursday. Among the contents of
the satchel was found a deed made out by
T. K. Snyder and Agnes G. Snyder to d. w.
Lowell, conveying to the latter thirty-six
acres of land for the sum of S303 49, The
envelope indicated that it was sent from
| Europe, registered, and it was addressed to
Edwin Legro, Ashtabula, Fla. There was
also among the contents of the satchel the
photograph of lady, and copies of the New
| York Tribune addressed to 7. K. Snyder,
| Ashtabula, Fla. Who the satchel belongs
to and how and when it got into the barrel
is mystery which remains yet to be solved.
John J. O'Donnell, of the United States
| Signal Service, who arrived at Jacksonville
| July %, on his way to Key West, and who
was subsequently detained, owing to the
| yellow fever at that place, and afterward
sent to Mobile temporarily left Thursday
for his destination, it having been deemed
safe for him to go there now. He goes
! for the purpose of establishing a carrier
pigeon service between Key West and the
| Bahama Islands for the benefit of the SER
vice, and hopes to have his pigeons thor
ing order within very few months. 1t is
| expected that this new service will result in
an incalculable benefit to shipping, as by
utilizing the pigeons, quicker and more
accurate and reliable information in regard
to storms in the West Indies can be sent to
| this country.
! Tallahassee TdltahdsSean: Last Satur-
day afternoon Gabriel Ponder, gentleman
of color left an innocent looking bag in
xHy1i 10 he .AfNft 10
look at the city and shake hands with the
! brethren and sisters on the street. never
dreaming OF tho tricky proclivities of an
empty bag. He went back, got his bag
and had gotten five miles from town
when Sheriff Pearce overlook him
and called his attention to two pair
of shoes, some coffee, meat etc, that
had mysteriously crawled into his empty
bag. OF course he was very much sur
prised and cannot for the life of him inn
agine how they got there, but Judge West
has very kindly consented to allow him an
opportunity before the next Circuit Court
to investigate the mystery. Colored gem
tlemen ought to be careful how they asso-
ciate with empty bags; especially about a
store where there are goods that are liable
crawl.
John Shap, Oscar Higgins and Shaw
Thompson have been arrested at Brooks
vile, ID. +. Mcclure was arrested in Sum
ter county and William Bedsoe was ar
rested in Georgia, all for numbering John
Holderfield Nov. Is, 1884 The above five
men are said to have conducted an illicit |
distillery. At that time Holderfield had
81 900, and these men gave it out that he
had gone to Texas. Sam Mays, who lived
near the distillery, was suspected of foul
play, got frightened and went to Georgia. |
was haunted, and gave informal |
ton in September last to N. B. Rhodes, |
chief south detective, who worked |
up the case and swore out the warrants.
1t is rumored that price has been set on
Rhodes head, and Rhodes, fearing assassin |
alton, has made duplicate sealed state
ments of the evidence, one deposited with |
the County Judge and one with his wife, to |
be used in case he should be killed Rhodes |
has had the skeleton of Holderfield ex-
humed from the swamp, where it was con-
cealed.
A Sleep-Walker Takes Cold Plunge |